Recent content by curtisbain95

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    144hz 1080p budget build help

    Thinking about upgrading my current pc to something that can maintain 120-144hz at 1080p on current triple A games with x2MSAA and high settings as a benchmark, is there anyone who has hardware that can reccommend their own parts or have an idea as to what route to go down for the money, I...
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    [SOLVED] 3200mhz Cl14 Vs Cl16 Price v Performance

    A question that no doubt has been frequently asked, however I can never find anything definitive to my question. Thinking of selling my i7 4790k and memory, for a R5 2600, with a MSI B450 Tomahawk, and then upgrade the chip with Zen 2 comes out later this year, however, having searched...
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    Low GTX 1080 usage and fps, no bottleneck or v-sync

    MERGED QUESTION Question from curtisbain95 : "GTX 1080 fluctuating performance"
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    Low GTX 1080 usage and fps, no bottleneck or v-sync

    Message for a friend as he has this issue, in GTA he found himself running at 90fps on a 144hz panel at just 30-50% gpu usage, paired with an i7- 4770k @ 3.9, no frame limiter. Baffled as to what is happening here as I've surpassed those framerates whilst running the same settings on a 970 with...
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    Updating my BIOS (which format)

    Troubleshooting my PC trying to narrow down a black screen issue, heard there are some big risks with flashing up your bios, just wondering which format you flash drive need to be and which file in the bios zip folder to drag over to flash! thanks MSI z87m mobo